Light Fortress
Chapter 364 - 55 The True Use of Chi Huo

Chapter 364: Chapter 55 The True Use of Chi Huo

It snowed heavily in Changye.

The ancient walls of Snow Forbidden City were covered in silvery white, which should have been a beautiful sight; however, the swirling snowflakes transformed into a dark illusion, shrouding everything in black.

Numerous huge buds, along with enormous thorns rolling like dragons.

The scene looked somewhat oppressive.

For Gu Shen... he had seen too much black today. On the way to Divine Temple Mountain, closing his eyes yielded blackness, and upon arriving, opening them revealed the same.

Black mountains, black water, black flowers.

He was tired.

"You were able to break through my dream... because of that girl, right?"

Bai Lu couldn’t forget the scene she witnessed on Ninghe Bridge.

Gu Shen, embodying fire, plunged into Ning River.

And after the flames blossomed, Ning River shattered, and at the center of the sea of fire, stood a girl.

Perhaps because the image of the resonating sea of fire was too beautiful, or maybe the girl’s appearance was too stunning... the image was deeply etched into her heart.

However, Gu Shen’s response was just a faint sentence.

"Miss Bai, I have no idea what you’re talking about..."

The next moment.

Gu Shen raised his palm.

A wisp of firelight leaped from his brow, as Chi Huo clung to his palm, and he reached out to touch a giant bud.

With a "hiss".

The giant bud instantly ignited.

This dark dream was torn apart—

The surrounding thorns, and the buds, all began to fade, and the ancient city returned to its pristine silvery white appearance under the night sky scattered with heavy snow.

"Breaking through your dream was not very difficult," Gu Shen shook his hand, extinguishing the flame in his palm, and said softly, "Don’t forget how I scored an S-grade."

Bai Lu stood frozen in place.

"For others, dream interpretation may be difficult, but for me, it’s the simplest thing in the world," Gu Shen said with his hands in his pockets, casually adding, "As for the girl you saw... I think you’re asking the wrong person. This is your dream, not mine. If you have the time, I suggest you... check your head tomorrow."

Bai Lu clenched her silver teeth, somewhat angry.

This was the reason she wanted to see Gu Shen... because the final scene of the Ning River dream had surpassed her understanding.

It was her dream she was supposed to control, yet a third person appeared?

Yet, when the dream ended, the memories about the "third person" vanished.

As if... they had never appeared at all!

Asking anyone about such a problem would likely make them think she’s insane.

Now she also felt that her earlier perceptions might have been mistaken.

Bai Lu wanted to say more, but in the blink of an eye, Gu Shen disappeared into the night of Snow Forbidden City.

...

...

"Crazy..."

"Two crazies."

Gu Shen turned into an alley, exhaling a breath of relief.

His palm was slightly sweaty with heat.

Thinking back, he indeed had been a bit careless... Changye was an extremely belligerent place; he might avoid those Transcendents who came to challenge him, but he could not escape Han Dang’s unscrupulous ambushes.

"If it weren’t for Uncle Gao..."

Gu Shen now felt a faint sense of palpitation.

There was still silence from Zero Zero One.

If Han Dang had discarded his pride and attacked him during the time Chu Ling severed their spiritual link... then how long could he have lasted in [The Truth] relying on Chi Huo’s power?

One thing was for certain... Gu Shen was much stronger than before.

This time, when he entered [The Truth], Han Dang got straight to the point and used his true power, but the result was Gu Shen emerging unscathed.

There was a trace of spiritual pain.

But this pain was completely within a tolerable range... Due to Chi Huo’s raging flames, Gu Shen’s ability to endure had greatly enhanced.

He recalled the scenes from the "True Word" and "Thorny Dreams."

Gu Shen fell into a brief contemplation.

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Everyone in this world has to abide by the most basic Extraordinary Law.

All Extraordinary Abilities grow based on "prime material."

In a sense, the clash of Extraordinary Abilities... is also a clash of Extraordinary Essence.

With every refinement of their physique, with every operation of the Breathing Method, Transcendents experience a slight enhancement. As each year passes... their essence increases, their abilities grow stronger, until they reach a certain "age" threshold, where the brain’s energy, the vitality of cells, the regenerative ability of blood, all begin to decline.

This is what mortals typically refer to as "aging."

Transcendents age slower than ordinary people.

But they too will eventually grow old.

However, "Extraordinary Essence" does not age; it will continue to grow forever, just like the scene Gu Shen saw on Divine Temple Mountain... If no measures are taken, these essences will abnormally fill the entire mountain range, bursting through the void, and finally overflow into the real world.

For Transcendents... aging does not mean becoming weaker.

It just means they no longer grow stronger as quickly.

As long as a person still possesses a large amount of "prime material," no matter their age, they are forever powerful.

In other words... the real "aging" in the eyes of Transcendents begins from the moment their essence starts to overflow.

They no longer have such a vast amount of energy.

Gu Shen did not know.

That ten miles away, Gao Tian and Bai Chen had fought a battle.

The "youthfully exuberant" future Grand Judge of the Bai Family was pressed down and taught a lesson by Uncle Gao.

He knew even less.

In the conversation between these two Titled individuals, they mentioned his "duel" with Han Dang... Both had taken for granted that in this world, it was impossible for anyone at the Deep Sea Fourth Level to resist the "True Word" of the eleventh level.

Because at this stage, no matter how talented a fourth-level Transcendent is, they cannot compare with the eleventh level in terms of the quantity of Extraordinary Essence.

To further articulate, what these two Titled individuals considered an impossible resistance.

Was to shatter upon contact.

Was to be crushed!

Li Qingsui wanted Gu Shen to suffer under the "True Word," but she only dared to ask Uncle Gao to wait ten seconds.

Ten seconds was an appropriate amount of time.

In their anticipation, that was probably just enough time for the "bitter experience" to emerge.

But neither Li Qingsui nor Uncle Gao expected... that Gu Shen could resist within the "True Word" by his own power, manage to counteract, and hold on.

Ten seconds?

No... Gu Shen could hold out much longer than they had imagined!

Because the price of resisting the "True Word" was simply to burn Extraordinary Essence... If it were any other fourth-level Transcendent, the moment their thought of resistance was conceived, their essence would have been burnt out.

This is what caused the situation of being "crushed."

They hadn’t seen the scene deep in Divine Temple Mountain... The way Gu Shen dealt with the "Order Collapse Flowers" was entirely different from that of the Angel Envoy; his so-called eradication was to swallow these chaotic black spots into his own stomach.

And then... digest them.

After facing two Dreams in succession, upon emerging from the "True Word" and "Thorny Dreams"... Gu Shen vaguely realized something in his heart.

The essence swallowed by Chi Huo, though it could not be directly used by him.

Could still be forcibly consumed when he faced a "spiritual crisis."

He had a vast treasure within his brow.

But this treasure was not to be actively opened; it was more like an "emergency measure," only to be consumed when Gu Shen encountered a great crisis.

Gu Shen murmured to himself, "I seem to have found the real way to use Chi Huo..."